About Kenn Williamson

Present Tense

I'm a single dad to three remarkable kids: Rory (11), Charlie (9), and Teddy (5). By day, I'm an Enterprise Architect at SEQTEK, building software systems and helping companies cut through AI hype to figure out what actually works. By calling, I'm a disciple of Christ, still figuring out what it means to walk in love.

I live in Jenks, Oklahoma, where I'm juggling work deadlines, dance recitals, autism therapy appointments, homeschool co-op volunteering, and an ambitious personal website project that lets me geek out on Rust and modern web architecture. I like to write music, blog posts, and code, play guitar reasonably well, and I'm a huge nerd for anime and way too many fantasy novels. I'm learning to hike mountains despite a fear of heights, trying to stay patient when I want to be critical, and working on living the grace I preach.

This is my story. It's not a resume and it's not a highlight reel. It's the real arc: gifted kid who couldn't function in school, lost years after my mother died, transformation through faith I didn't expect, and now trying to be a good father, a faithful disciple, and someone who actually helps people instead of thinking about it.

The Arc

I was born in Tulsa in 1982 to a family that moved from lower-middle class to upper-middle class over the course of my childhood. My dad was a lawyer and state legislator; my mom was a teacher. I had four grandparents who were all formative influences. Engineers and entrepreneurs, both sets teaching me different things about work, money, and life.

On paper, I should have crushed it. High IQ, gifted programs, math competitions where I placed fourth in the state. In reality, I was the kid who could ace tests without studying but wouldn't turn in homework. The gap between my potential and my performance was a constant source of frustration for everyone, especially me. My parents divorced when I was ten. I got bullied. I changed schools five times. My senior year, my parents sent me to military school as a last-ditch intervention, and suddenly I got straight A's because I had no choice.

College was supposed to be the fresh start. Instead, it was a ten-year odyssey of false starts, major changes, and dropping out multiple times. I finally graduated with a mechanical engineering degree at 28, but not before working at a wastewater treatment plant and many other temporary jobs.

Then my mom got cancer. Watching her die while I was still figuring out my life sent me into a spiral I barely survived. I won't detail the specifics of that period. It involved substance abuse, self-destruction, and hurting people I cared about. What matters is that I hit bottom hard enough to realize I couldn't save myself.

I met my co-parent during that broken season, and we had three kids together: Rory, Charlie, and Teddy. They are the best things that have ever happened to me, full stop. The relationship didn't last; we've been separated for over three years and split custody, with me having marginally more time. Teddy has

The transformation didn't happen all at once. I found my way back to faith, but not the Midwestern Protestantism I grew up with. Discovering Jonathan Pageau's symbolic way of reading Scripture led me to Orthodox Christianity and the Church Fathers. (More on that journey, and the theology I've landed on, in Finding Faith and Theology & Practice below.)

Professionally, I went back to school, finished my engineering degree, and then, after my engineering work proved unsatisfying, pivoted into software development through a coding boot camp in 2017. I've been at SEQTEK for almost seven and a half years now, moving from mid-level developer to Enterprise Architect. I've led successful projects, helped companies get acquired, and found my niche evangelizing Intelligence Augmentation (IA), helping companies understand that the goal is amplifying human capabilities, not replacing human judgment.

Now I'm here: single dad, software architect, amateur theologian, trying to raise three kids to walk in love while figuring out what that means myself. I'm critical of myself in ways I'm not critical of others. I struggle with patience, with self-regulation, with the fear that I'm still getting it all wrong. But I'm also building a life that has purpose beyond my own comfort, not just software.

What You'll Find Here

This site is organized around the major chapters of my story. You can read straight through or jump to what interests you:

• Origins : Family background, the grandparents who shaped me, education struggles, and the military school year that changed everything (for better and worse)
• Finding Faith : From childhood religion through atheism to discovering the Church Fathers, and the journey back to faith
• Theology & Practice : Mimetic theory, the non-sacrificial reading of the Gospel, and what Christian Voluntarism actually means
• Professional Path : Engineering to software, the SEQTEK story, and my problem-solving approach
• From AI to IA : Why both AI hype and skepticism miss the point. Intelligence Augmentation amplifies human capabilities rather than replacing them
• Philosophy & Vision : Core values, political-economic views, legacy hopes, and advice I wish I'd received earlier

A Note on Tone

I'm usually pretty reserved about myself until someone asks. Then I'm open, maybe too open. This is the forum for that openness. You'll find vulnerability here, but not oversharing. I'm honest about my struggles without dwelling on them, and self-critical without losing sight of how far I've come. Throughout it all, I'm trying to point toward something bigger than myself: toward God, toward love, toward truth.

Welcome to the story. It's still being written.